2025 end of Hospital abuse case:
I moved! I finally have stable housing, and I'm free from seeing that horrible abusive hospital ever again.
I am so excited to be here, yes I am happier. But I'm also upset because my Small Claims case I worked so hard on against the abuse that happened to me in 2021 by the hospital got closed.
Small Claims court knew I had extreme circumstances with the fire in 2024, then ever since then hotel hopping, and not having stable housing, so they were suppose to give me a chance at the next motion. However that didn't happen, the Judge refused to read my portion because the hospital made a motion to strike and close my case because I wasn't able to get a medical expert report. I was meant be allowed to be given a extension due to the fire, or have them drop the need for it since it could be proven neglect without a expert report. However instead the Judge seen it had been ongoing since 2021, said they would read the hospital's motion then decide to read mine (which a previous Judge ruled I must be allowed to be given a extension if I proved my extreme circumstances).
The hospital's rep lied multiple times throughout their motion, and though on record I did my best to verbally tell the Judge during that motion what was fact and what was fictitious, it clearly didn't stick and it wasn't read. The Judge decided to not read my motion (I don't know if this included my response to the hospital's motion too) and go with the hospital to strike my entire claim stating I probably wouldn't be able to afford a medical expert report anyway. Which is true, if I couldn't have found someone willing to do probono, or on a contingency fee, then I would've had to say no I couldn't get one. But I was never given the chance to ask around now that I finally have stable housing and can do so.
To make matters worse the hospital retaliated and purposefully exposed all my personal information in the last motion. I mean everything, address, phone, health card, health records, etc. All because they were mad that I decided to continue pursuing the matter and didn't drop it when requested and I continued on. Because they retaliated so maliciously I had no choice but to do another motion after my case was struck, to request this exposed information be redacted or ONLY these documents they uploaded unredacted be sealed because everything was now publicly available. But the Judge instead chose to seal my entire Small Claims case because he said it was easier. But that was not what I wanted. I wanted people to be able to see my evidence, hear me, see me, see my hard work for all those years that they put me through the mental ringer. The lawyer looked so pleased to hear the Judge's decision. So now all my years of fighting back is just erased. The nurses's schedule chart proving he was working the same day he hit me, gone. Same day he wasn't fired or repremanded and made contact again with me giving me water (which sent me into extreme fear for my life) gone.
Better believed I cried.
I feel like I wasted those nearly 5 years of my life attempting justice to get smacked in the face by malicious intent by the hospital and their rep. They knew what they were doing and unfortunately they got it. They told a previous judge in 2024 that they would NOT use any health records to be made publicly so it would be avoided, which the judge agreed, but they did a complete 180 on that verbal oath agreement to me and that Judge, just because I didn't stop pursing my case against them.
It's not right. I deserved justice, not more hostility towards me after the abuse they already did to me. They already ruined my life, took away my love of so much, I haven't sang since 2021 because of them. And yet that wasn't enough? It will never stop hurting. It hurts more when they bury the truth, bury me.
I just wanted to be heard, acknowledged, someone to do something so no one ever suffered at their hands like I did ever again. And if anyone has gone through anything similar, I feel for you. I understand your pain, frustration, and indescribable loss and sadness that others might brush off as you need to move on. When they don't understand that it's trauma, and that doesn't leave your body. It stays, and you mourn that previous person you were before it happened to you. You want to be that happier, productive version of you again. But it's lost. It's buried already without a funeral to hold. It's a sadness I hope very few know and experience. But know I believe you when you say it happened to you.
Final tidbit for anyone asking the exact phrases used on why the case was closed:
Hospital's rep cited "Ryabikhina et al v St Michael's hospital et al 2011 ONSC 1884 para 27-30" which the judge held on to that a medical expert is needed in a malpractice case (I purposefully never claimed malpractice though, yes lawyers told me it was but I purposefully said neglegence not malpractice). And the Judge said there's no indication that I could get a expert report before Trial so there is no need to address my motion. Judge also said he agrees with the defendant that because the Dr was the one that signed the Form1 that liability with fault can't proceed against the hospital. So that false imprisonment and Charter breaches aren't against the hospital but the Dr (which to me doesn't make sense since the hospital was the one refusing to let me go home and the falsified records to claim I was there voluntarily there when I was not). Lastly he states cuz of no proof of injury (despite xray, and cardiologist documents) he agrees with defendant that that part is "inflammatory and a nuisance as contemplated by the Court of Appeal in Van de Vrande case." The hospital's rep was the one stating infammatory and nuisance which is why he quoted it that way.
